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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blaze
    The movie is Hawke’s fourth and best feature as a director; it’s immensely touching, and only deceptively shapeless.
  2. Anton Chekhov's The Duel
    It just feels like playacting.
  3. Boy A
    Boy A comes frustratingly close to succeeding as tragedy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Punk Singer
    As pointedly as The Punk Singer looks at the past, the movie’s uncertain where the energy of that original moment has gone. Where are the riot-grrrls of today? Take your daughters to the movie, then ask them.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Capernaum
    Capernaum is a hard, hard watch meant to force comfortable moviegoers out of their bubbles of ease. The rewards, in no particular order, are the central figure, the young actor playing him, and the film’s magnanimous windows onto suffering and resilience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An Officer and a Gentleman
    An Officer and a Gentleman has so many echoes that it never finds its own voice. [29 Jul 1982]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    Ends on a note of triumphant populism, but the film’s bitter aftertaste hints that when we ignore the details, we only ensure they’ll be repeated.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Martha Marcy May Marlene
    This doesn't feel like art, it feels like a cop-out, as though Durkin couldn't decide how to end his movie, so he didn't. He's a mature filmmaker - a natural - but he's still thinking in shorts.
  9. Dina
    Though he might be uncertain about sex, or even kissing and cuddling, Scott is an incurable romantic. And steadfastly loyal and kind. The value of that is made clear when the filmmakers disclose the full tragedy and horror of what Dina has gone through, and when he sings to her “Before the Next Teardrop Falls.”
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trip to Italy
    If The Trip to Italy begins shakily, it ends with expansive bliss, a father and son reconnecting off the shores of Capri as Gustav Mahler’s art song “Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (I Am Lost to the World)” sends everyone heart-stoppingly home.
  11. The Flower of My Secret
    In short, Almodovar opens some new doors to his artists here, and they respond in surprising, captivating ways. [29 Mar 1996]
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  12. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
    Wolf relies on the videos far too much. That over-reliance makes Recorder feel padded, as does his frequent use of reenactments.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lovely & Amazing
    A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.
  14. Knafayim Shvurot
    This intimate, warmly made family portrait always feels true. The performances are particularly good.
  15. MC5*: A True Testimonial
    MC5 is everything a rockumentary should be and usually isn't. Then again, MC5 was everything a rock band should be and usually isn't.
  16. Joy Ride
    It's a snazzy, smartly made, and even hip little scarefest. As a jump-start to Halloween, it's all you could hope for.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    THX 1138
    For someone wanting to get noticed as a filmmaker, George Lucas couldn't have done much better than THX 1138, his 1971 feature debut that starts a limited run today in a new director's cut.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lambert & Stamp
    A documentary lovingly and somewhat shambolically directed by James D. Cooper, gives the duo their due and in so doing opens up a singular view on an era, its energy, and its excesses. For fans, it’s a must-see; for others, a slightly overlong tour of a seminal pop explosion and the men who made it.
  19. Stan & Ollie
    An unexpected portrait of the legendary comedy duo on a mostly forgotten stage tour at the twilight of their careers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Undine
    Petzold is a gifted filmmaker pulled in opposite directions by politics and melodrama, and when they’re in perfect tension, as in Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014), a masterpiece can result. Undine, by contrast, is the slightest bit waterlogged.
  21. Risky Business
    Risky Business is the sleeper of the summer. It's a refreshing change from the usual dumb teenage ripoffs, the slickest American film since "Trading Places" and "War Games," and a strong directorial debut for Paul Brickman, who knows his way around teen fantasies. [05 Aug 1983]
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  22. Charlie's Country
    This walkabout ends less dramatically and not as tragically as the one in Roeg’s film, but perhaps with a greater poignancy. And Gulpilil, four decades of hard living later, is as magnificent as ever.
  23. Attack the Block
    The movie's amateurishly made. But the script is full of little surprises.
  24. Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
    Listening to Taylor is so compelling the screen could be blank and “Lost Tapes” would still be interesting. But director Nanette Burstein keeps things visually abundant with home movies, snapshots, film stills, film clips, newsreels, publicity photos.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolf of Wall Street
    One of the funniest yet most depressing movies in Martin Scorsese’s long career — a celebration and evisceration of male savagery, financial division. It’s like “GoodFellas,” only (slightly) more legal, which is very much the point.
  26. Ballplayer: Pelotero
    A well-crafted, bravely revealing little film that could be considered essential education for baseball fans. It's just a bonus that the documentary is so entertaining.
  27. Terror's Advocate
    Outrageous controversialist meets brilliant attorney, and fact intertwines with fiction.
  28. Dark Horse
    But when Dark Horse leaves the feel-good realm to show news footage of a failed miners’ strike, or to have the camera linger on the impoverished surroundings where Dream Alliance’s owners still dwell, it suggests that it will take more than a few fairy tale finishes for their reality to change.
  29. Sweet Land
    A lovely , old-fashioned farm romance quietly doubling as a comment on immigration and American identity.
  30. The Two Popes
    Both Pryce and Hopkins are fine. But on the basis of the rest of the movie they shouldn’t have a prayer.
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